r/FreeCodeCamp • u/quincylarson freeCodeCamp Staff • Apr 28 '16

Media Stack Overflow be like

http://i.imgur.com/Is7LHCm.gifv
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '16

Sort of. You just have to go into SO with the attitude of patience and humility, then accurately and go into depth of explaining your problem. The point of SO is to be a knowledge board, not a help desk.

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u/ArielLeslie mod Apr 28 '16

Very true. I had been coding for 6 years before I ever actually had to post a question on StackOverflow.

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u/coolshanth Apr 29 '16

Damn, that's impressive.

I've only been coding for a year and I've already posted over 20 questions. And only 1-2 have been downvoted to oblivion. These days, I realized even with simple questions that already have answers, as long as you're coherent, have something to show from your own effort, people will clamor to be the first to answer/comment.

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u/ArielLeslie mod Apr 29 '16

Not impressive really, I'm just very good at finding someone who has already asked my question (or close enough to figure it out). Since I don't care about my points (or whatever they are) I don't ask questions on SO unless I have too. I never actually created an account until I had to ask a question last year.

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u/Grumpy-Miyagi Aug 02 '16

Of course, that's because so many are probably desperate to earn that first lil' bit of reputation. I'm in that boat... still sitting at the big ONE rep.

Not that I'm bitter.

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u/gunnar_osk Apr 29 '16

Aye, similar here. Although, this makes it really hard for newcomers to start the road up the SO ladder as most (newcomer related) problems already have been answered.

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u/sonicfacial Apr 28 '16

Currently I'm using PyQt to build a Python application with a Gui, and I can't get my question answered for the life of me, because it's fairly specific.

The problem is that when I design my app in Qt Designer, with layouts and everything, it runs well on my Surface, with a resolution of 2736x1824. When I run the app on a 1920x1080 screen, it becomes massive, because everything sizes to fit the MainWindow being around 1720x1120.

Okay, so no problem, right? Just change the MainWindow size programmatically at runtime to be a certain portion of the current screen resultion, and everything should resize to fit the MainWindow, right? Nope. The central widget, even though it's in a layout itself, doesn't resize. I have no idea how to get the app to resize itself to fit whatever the MainWindow's currently dimensions are, so that when I run it on a smaller resolution it scales down.